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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 31.
Published in final edited form as: Acta Psychiatr Scand. 2008 Aug 27;118(4):10.1111/j.1600-0447.2008.01247.x. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0447.2008.01247.x

Figure 2. Rates of Remission, Recurrence, and New Onsets of High DES Scores (30 or more) among Borderline Patients over Ten Years of Prospective Follow-up.

Figure 2

Note: Since a recurrence can only occur after a remission, there is no possibility of a recurrence occurring at the 2-year follow-up. Even though recurrences are displayed in this figure at the 4, 6, 8, and 10-year follow-up periods, these recurrences are actually occurring 2, 4, 6, and 8 years after the remission. All told, 61 borderline patients of the 76 who had a high DES score at baseline experienced a remission and 18 of those who remitted experienced a recurrence. Of the 214 with a low-moderate baseline score, 14 experienced a new onset of a high DES score.